The Same Son

As alone and forsaken as you’d like to be
There are shoreless miseries of oceans, not seas
While you wallow and wail in your tower of ivory
Your sister is starving, your brother is begging
Your mothers are mourning, your fathers are folding
Unseen, unsung – under the same sun

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The Righteous for the Unrighteous

How does God create a community of saints out of sinful men and women? How can He avert the reproach of unrighteousness if He makes a covenant with sinners? How can the sinner become righteous without impairing the righteousness of God?

The answer is that God justifies Himself by appearing as His own advocate in defense of His own righteousness. And it is in the cross of Christ that this supreme miracle happens.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Posted May 26, 2012 at 12:04 am

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Posted May 25, 2012 at 11:59 pm 68 notes

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Psalm 126

Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.

Posted May 23, 2012 at 2:28 pm 1 notes

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"I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there. I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again."

Genesis 46: 3-4

Posted May 12, 2012 at 2:04 pm

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Two Evils

We pity the poor heathen who adore a god of stone, and yet worship a god of gold. Where is the vast superiority between a god of flesh and one of wood? The principle, the sin, the folly is the same in either case, only that in ours the crime is more aggravated because we have more light, and sin in the face of it. The heathen bows to a false deity, but the true God he has never known; we commit two evils, inasmuch as we forsake the living God and turn unto idols. May the Lord purge us all from this grievous iniquity!

- Charles Spurgeon

Posted May 5, 2012 at 2:37 am